..., Scotland, this week. Edinburgh-based Skyrora, which is currently developing an orbital launch vehicle and has recently started a series of engine test firings, has plans to launch from the UK and follow in the footsteps of Black Arrow through the...
... venture in human exploration: development of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission...for the design, development, test and production of the launch vehicle core stage and upper stages, as well as development ...
... the Apollo 11 mission took just 4 days to reach the Moon, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III) used in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead the spacecraft will...
... only brings us closer to that point but also takes us beyond simply launch readiness. We have been deliberately quiet about this aspect of our Skyrora XL launch vehicle as we had technical challenges to get it to this stage and we wanted to ensure...
... Force History Office, Washington DC 1998 5 Dissel, Adam, Kothari, and Lewis, M., Investigation of Two-Stage-to-Orbit Airbreathing launch Vehicle Configurations, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2006. pp. 568-574
..., called the Hypersonic Space and Global Transportation System (HSGTS), include: a 100 per cent reusable TSTO launch vehicle; takes off and lands horizontally; air-breathing propulsion on both stages; - Mach 4 turbine engines on the first...